Apr 08 2009
Faster! Faster!
Lisa is having fun with the new Wrangler, that was her request as we crossed the Rio Salado over, and over, and over. Of course, with the drought, the raging river that was last fall is merely a trickle now, not even enough to get muddy:
We stopped in Riley to check out the school ruins and Santa Rita church. Lisa had to go potty. Fortunately for her, there were facilities:
A couple of hours before Riley, we drove through Torreon. I had totally forgotten there was a fire last year, talk about scorched earth:
Anyhow, it was a nice day out. And since it’s likely we might lose the warranty should Chrysler go bankrupt (unfortunately, the government warranty protection announced March 29th only covers vehicles purchased on that day or after, so anyone who bought a car two days earlier are screwed) we wanted to get all the kinks worked out before then.
The Riley, NM loop:
